HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 325 Sophia (Dabney) Miller, of New Jersey. The grandparents on both sides were among the early- settlers in Trumbull county and located in the big woods, which forests they helped to clear up, and there reared families worthy the names they bear. There, as pioneer characters, they' lived, labored and died. Jared and Lucinda (Miller) Housel were the parents of six children, four of whom were sons, George A. being the third in order of their birth. All are still living except one brother, Servenus, who died in the Union army at the time of the Civil war. George A. Housel received a common school education and remained at home with his parents until his marriage, June 15, 1862, to Julia Dilley, a native of Bristol township, Trumbull county, Ohio a daughter of Samuel a.nd Lydia (Patton) Dilley, natives of Orangeville, Pennsylvania. One child was born of this union, Julia, now Mrs. M. M. Joy, of Southington township. The wife and mother died September 8, 1863, after which Mr. Housel returned to his parents' home and remained there until his marriage to his second wife, Elizabeth Maffitt, April 15, 1866. She is a native of Farmington township, Trumbull county, born July 24, 1842, a daughter of Edward and Hannah (Palm) Maffitt. Her paternal grandparents, Thomas and Jane (Drake) Maffitt, were of Virginia, while her maternal grandparents were John and Hannah (Flick) Palm, of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Housel's parents were among the pioneer settlers in the forest lands of Farmington township, where they spent the remainder of their days. Mrs. Housel is the only survivor of a family of two sons and two daughters, as follows: Lucy A., Mrs. Norton L. Gates, died June, 1903; Absalom, died March, 1891; George NV., of Company H, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, killed at Kelley's Bridge, Kentucky, June 11, 1864, aged twenty-six years; and Mrs. Housel. After his second marriage Mr. Housel purchased a farm adjoining his father's place and there he farmed for six years, then bought his present farm of one hundred and fifty acres. He has rebuilt the farm buildings and otherwise improved his farm, placing it in an excellent condition and has one hundred and twenty-five acres of his place under a good stale of cultivation. He has always paid special attention to dairy work, which has been a profitable adjunct to his general farming business. In his religious faith Mr. House is in accord with that of the Methodist Episcopal denomination; has been a member and one of the trustees of this church many years. Politically, he is a Republican and has held the office of township trustee four terms. He was elected member of the board of education in 1888 and served nearly twenty years. The largest part of this period he was president of the board, showing the interest taken in school matters, as well as the capability with which he filled such position. He was master of the Farmington Grange.and is now its treas-urer, being on his fourth term. By Mr, Housel's second marriage the following children were born: 1. Lovern E., born May 2, 1868; married Nathan Asper, of Farmington 326 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY township; she died February 9, 1897, leaving three children—Coryl L. (Mrs. Glenn Newell, of Garretsville, Ohio), born June 4, 1889; George McK., born.April 30, 1891, resides with Mr. Housel; Marie Lovern, born July 10, 1894. These children have been reared by Mr. and Mrs. Housel since their mother's death. 2. George Franklin, born November 3, 1869, and owns a one hundred acre farm formerly owned by his father in Farm-ington township. His children are: Lucy Mabel, born September 3, 1889, died May 12, 1893; George Henry, born April 2, 1892; Clare Franklin, born September 6, 1894, died October 16, 1895; Edna Lovern, born November 25, 1896, died April 15, 1897; Ertell Laverne, born September 16, 1898. JOHN CORYDON HUTCHINS.—Samuel Hutchins, grandfather of John Corydon Hutchins, came to Vienna, Trumbull county, in 1798 from Connecticut with a surveying party, walking all the way, and his marriage was the first white marriage celebrated in Trumbull county. John Hutchins, the father of John C.; was born in Trumbull county in 1812 and married Rhoda M. Andrews. As a young man he went to Warren from Vienna, studying law with Governor Tod, and, subsequently, became a member of the law firm of Tod, Hoffman and Hutchins and for many years practiced law throughout the Western Reserve, attained high rank in his profession, and at one time was a member of the Ohio Legislature and a member of Congress from Trumbull-Ashtabula district, just before and some years after the opening of the war of the rebellion. John C. Hutchins Was born at Warren in 1840, attended the public schools at Warren, Oberlin College and, subsequently, the Albany Law School. He became a member of the Second Ohio Cavalry in the summer of 1861, and became second lieutenant, first lieutenant and acting captain. In 1863 he met with a severe accident and was compelled to resign. Soon thereafter, upon the restoration of his health, he commenced the study of law in his father's law office at Warren. In 1865 he entered as a stuaent the law school at Albany, in New York, took his degree there in 1866, and was immediately admitted to practice in New York by the New York Court of Appeals. Upon his graduation from Albany he returned to Ohio and was admitted to the bar at Canfield, commencing the practice of his pro-fegsion at Youngstown, in partnership with General Sanderson. He moved to Cleveland in 1868, and formed a partnership with his father, who had become a resident of Cleveland, and Judge Ingersoll, under the firm name of Hutchins & Ingersoll, subsequently becoming a member of the thin of John & J. C. Hutchins. In 1877 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga county, serving one term of two years, and in 1879 he again took up the general practice under the firm name of Hutchins, Campbell & Johnson. In 1883 he was elected judge of the Municipal Court, serving four years. At the end of his official term there he again resumed general practice, but this time alone. In 1892 he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 327 of Cuyahoga county, but resigned in 1895 to accept the position of post-master of Cleveland, by appointment of President Cleveland. He retired from the postmastership in the fall of 1899, and again resumed general practice of law in Cleveland, where he has been ever since. He early became very much interested in all matters concerning the prosperity and growth of Cleveland, was a member of the board of education at one time, and a member of the public library board for thirteen .years, seven of which he served as president of the board. His practice of his profession has been of a general nature, and at various times he was inter-ested as an attorney in the trial-of many important and leading cases, both civil and. criminal. Judge Hutchins is a most companionable man, a great student of general literature and history. He has a very retentive memory, and possesses the happy faculty of applying his knowledge at the proper time and place. He has a host of friends and admirers, and has always been faithful in the discharge of his every duty, in whatever position of trust he has been called. He is a man of fine presence, a fluent speaker who is much sought on public occasions where an address is required. He is a member of the Loyal Legion, and was in 1897 junior vice commander of the Ohio Commandery. He is well remembered and much admired by the friends of his boyhood in Trumbull county. Judge Hutchins was married in 1862 to Jennie M. Campbell, of Scotch ancestry and a native of New York. Five children were born of said marriage, two girls and three boys. Mrs. Hutchins died in Cleveland in 1904. HENRY ALBERT WILLIAMS, one of the prosperous farmers of Bloomfield township, is a native of Devonshire, England, born October 26, 1856, a son of John Williams. The mother died when Henry A., the son, was three years of age. In 1875 the father and son went to Bloomfield township, where the father bought land. His death occurred August 22, 1906. Henry A. was the youngest of four sons and two daughters in his parents' family. After going to Trumbull county he was employed on a farm by the month for four years, and in 1879 he, with his brother Richard, purchased one hundred and sixty-two acres of land in partnership, the same being in the northern portion of Bloomfield township. This farm the two brothers worked jointly until the marriage of Henry A., when he sold it to his father. In 1889 Henry A. bought sixty acres on the pike a mile and a, half south of Bloomfield Center. On this farm the improvements consisted of a few dilapidated old buildings, but in 1896 he built a commodious frame house of eight rooms, the building being two full stories high. He has also rebuilt the barn and made many valuable improve-ments upon his farm. He carries on diversified farming, together with the dairy business, paying special attention to horses, cattle and hogs. Mr. Williams received a common school education at the schools of his .native country. The family are members of. the Disciples church, and 328 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY politically he is a supporter of the general principles of the Republican party.. He has never aspired to public position, but from sense of duty served as road supervisor one year in his road district. He belongs to the K. O. T. M. No. 511, of Bloomfield. Mr. Williams was united in marriage March 29, 1888, to Atarah Dunkerton, a native of Somersetshire, England, born February 17, 1872, daughter of George and Eliza A. (Green) Dunkerton. GEORGE DUNKERTON, deceased, who in his lifetime was one of the active, earnest citizens of Bloomfield township, and whose family still resides within the township, was a native of Somersetshire, England, born October 3, 1842. He had the advantages of the common schools of his native country, and. was reared in the faith of the Church of England (Episcopal). In his political views he was a believer in the principles of the Republican party. His parents were William and Kesiah (Dunkerton) Dunkerton. He was united in marriage January 10, 1867, to Eliza N. Green, born March 15, 1842, a daughter of Abram and Jane (Dunkerton) Green. Mr. Dunkerton being a laborer at whatever kind of honest toil he could secure continued at this until July 21, 1879, when he went to Bloomfield township, where he bought one hundred acres of land and set up a home in this new country. This place was within the forests, and Mr. Dunkerton set about clearing up the land. suitable for cultivating. He erected the necessary buildings and succeeded in getting seventy acres under cultivation. He was injured by a horse and survived but three weeks, dying November 8, 1897. The widow and children purchased seventy acres additional, joining on the west of the homestead, on May 13, 1907. There they carry on general farming, raise horses, cattle and hogs, and have a good dairy. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Dunkerton were as follows : Ernest A., died aged twenty-five years, in the autumn of 1892; Edgar, of Bristol township; Atarah, Mrs. Henry Williams, of Bloomfield township; Ithream Herbert, of Bloomfield township; Keciah J., Mrs. William Goodwin of Coalbrook, Ohio; Emily M., Mrs. George Stony, of Coalbrook; John Abraham, of Rock Island, Illinois; Austin Frederick, on the home farm; George Edward, at home. Mrs. Dunkerton has won the esteem of the community in which she resides by the manner in which she has cared for the family and looked after the estate left by her husband, and to which she has been able to add materially. WILLIAM JOHN VENN, one of the painstaking agriculturists of Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, is a native of England, born in Somer-setshire, November 30, 1858, the son of William and Elizabeth (Hamery) Venn. The maternal grandparents were Thomas and Ann Hamery. Will- HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 329 iam J. Venn was educated at the .English common schools, and worked at the milling business in his native country until 1872, when he and his brother Noah went to Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and there was employed on a farm for one year. He then purchased a house and lot in. the town of Bloomfield, and resided there a year, after which he rented a farm of J. Wing for fifteen years. At the end of his renting period he bought one hundred acres from Mr. Wing and became a true farmer, at the same time also conducting farming operations on one hundred and seventy acres of the Wing farm. As time went on Mr. Venn ad.ded forty acres more to his holdings. Here he carries on diversified farming and dairying business.in a most truly successful manner. In 1901 he built the finest barn in the township. This building is forty by one hundred feet; it is for horses, cattle and. grain., together with ample space for hay. He has also erected a spacious farm house containing fourteen rooms, with furnace heat and natural gas lights, all being planned on a modern scale of convenience and appointment. Mr. Venn is a devoted Christian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In benevolent society affairs he is connected with the Protected Home Circle, and the Bloomfield Grange claims him as an active member. October 3, 1872, he was married to Martha Langdon, born in Somersetshire, England, daughter of James and Ann (Darch) Langdon, who came to Bloomfield township in 1873, Mrs. Venn having preceded them to the county the previous year. They resided in Mesopotamia township with their children. Mr. and Mrs. Venn are the parents of the following children: William J., of Bloomfield township ; Della, Mrs. Albert Griffin, of the same town-ship; Elva -V., teacher at Amherst, Ohio; Ethel M., widow of Ralph Crooks, residing with the parents; Grace, Mrs. Leon Clark, of Mesopo-tamia township ; Vern, at home; Mabel, at hoxne ; Helen Violet, music pupil at Cincinnati Conservatory, and Vesta Viola, high school student, at home. DAVID ROBERT WEAVER was born in West Austintown., Ohio, Aug,ust 28, 1864, and is a representative of a family that was identified with the interests of Mahoning county from the period of its earliest development. John and Gertrude (White) Weaver, his paternal grandparents, were from Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, and from there they crossed the mountains in a covered wagon and journeyed on to West Austintown and established their home amid the forests of Mahoning county. With the advance of time the husband cleared his land, and Weavers Corners there was named in honor of this pioneer couple. The year of their arrival in Mahoning county was 1816, and at that time their nearest mill was at Akron, and Mr. Weaver made the trips to and from the mill on horseback, marking the trail with blazed trees. There he and his faithful. wife carved out a splendid home from the wilderness, reared their family and enrolled their names among the founders and upbuilders of the county. 330 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Among their children was Charles Weaver, who was born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1814, ere the removal of his parents to the west. About the year 1858 he married, at West Austintown, Elizabeth Wagner, who was born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, in 1836, and, coming to America with her parents, they established their home first in Baltimore, Maryland, where they lived for a year. A short time after coming to this country Mr. Wagner was unforunate in breaking his leg, and as soon as he was able the family continued their westward journey to Jackson township, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he bought a heavily wooded farm and spent the remainder of his life. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Weaver located at West Austintown, where he followed his trade of cabinet-making and died there on the 5th of Septeinber, 1898. He is still survived by his widow, and she yet maintains her home in West Austintowu. In their family were four sons and a daughter, but the first born, a son, died at the age of one year; George, the second son, is a resident of Florence, Alabama ; David Robert is mentioned below; Catherine is the wife of William Ellis, of Mineral Ridge, Ohio; and Charles M. is on the home farm. David R. Weaver was born in West Austintown, and he received his educational training in the common schools and in the Canfield Normal. At the early age of fifteen years he left his parents' home, and during the following twenty-one years he worked for the Erie Railroad Compan.y. He bad previously taught school in Jackson township for one year, and. in November of 1901 he came to Bloomfield township, in Trumbull county, and located on the farm of one hundred acres which he had purchased on the..8th of .0ctober, 1888. Soon after- coming here he bought another tract of one hundred acres, on the opposite side of the road, and he has made all of the improvements on his land and has ninety acres of the farm under cultivation. He follows general farming, and also has a large dairy and raises cattle and hogs. Mr. Weaver married January 24, 1898, Annie Hossel, who was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1880, a daughter of Christopher and Caroline (Hossel) Hossel, who came from their native land of Germany to the T3nited States in 1846, locating in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Hossel was a coal miner. He died in that state in April, 1901, and his widow is residing in Sharon. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have five children, William D., Elizabeth, Florence, Annie and Leola. JAMES HENRY ELDRIDGE, deceased, was born May 10, 1845, in Pennsylvania. He was the son of Alfred and Alma (Foster) Eldridge, both natives of New York. James H. Eldridge's mother died when he was about six years of age, November 20, 1851, and he was bound out to a man who was by no means kind and. considerate toward him, so at the age of ten years young Eldridge ran away from his unpleasant home, and from that time on took care of himself. 1-le drifted to Trumbull county, Ohio, and was a. teamster, and also worked at coal mining. During the great Civil war he enlisted as a member of Company D, HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 331 Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served as a brave soldier until he received an honorable discharge, July. 17, 1865, at Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Eldridge was taken a prisoner and was confined in Ander-sonville prison for nine months, when he and a comrade succeeded in making their escape by tunneling out. They traveled by night and lay hid in negro cabins by day until they got back through the Union lines. After the close of the war he went to Texas•and was employed as a govern-ment scout for three years, after which he returned to Ohio. After his marriage James H. Eldridge resided in Liberty township, being employed four years by the Ohio Powder Company. He died August 26, 1887. He was united in. marriage February- 18, 1879, to Lura E. Partridge, born in Niles, Ohio, August 16, 1850, widow of John A. Clark, a native of Pennsylvania. After her marriage she resided in Liberty town-ship until the death of Mr. Clark, June 28, 1878. One child was born of the marriage--Francis S. Clark, March 29, 1878. Mrs. Eldridge was the daughter of Samuel and Harriet M. (Stoddard) Partridge. He was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, while the mother was a native of Cayuga county, New York. The children born to James H. and Lura E. (Partridge) Eldridge were : Harriet A., Mrs. Charles Kecker, of Bristol township; Eva May, Mrs. A. J. Brockett, of Bristol township; James J., of East Farmington, Ohio. After the death of Mr. Eldridge his widow and family moved to Vienna, Ohio, and from there to Fowler, where they remained until 1900, then removed to their present farm home in Bloomfield township, where the widow and her oldest son still live. Of Mr. Eldridge, it may be said that he was a Democrat in his political views, and an enterprising, industrious man who was cut down in the prime of manhood. He had seen his full share of hardships in his youth, but developed into a man of character and worth to his comniunity. DELOS W. RUSSELL, favorably known both as a farmer and merchant of Bloomfield township, Trumbull county, was born in North Bloomfield, July 7, 1864, and educated in the public and high schools. His parents were Alonzo W. and Mary E. (Smith) Russell. The father, of St. Law-rence county, New York, was born April 27, 1839, and the mother, a native of North Bloomfield, Ohio, was born October 2, 1839. The grandfather, Anson Russell, born January 1, 1809, was a native of Killingly, Connecticut, and the paternal grandmother was Lavina (Boynton) Russell, born September 10, 1812, at Potsdam, New York. The maternal grandparents were John and Julia Ann (Wright) Smith, natives respectively of Gill and Northampton, Massachusetts—the former born February 2, 1800, and the latter September 4, 1806. The great-grandparents, Paul and Martha (Montague) Wright, were born as follows: the former, August 1, 1780, and the latter, March 23, 1783, both in Massachusetts. Grandfather Russell went to Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1849, and located 332 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY on a farm, where his wife died February 12, 1868. Some years later he went to Bloomfield. Grandfather Smith went to Bloomfield about 1820 and purchased a farm, upon which he resided until his death in 1868. His wife died April 16, 1870. Alon.zo W. Russell, the fa-ther, was married April 30, 1862; settled on a farm and also operated a saw mill and a. general store, the mill being his chief business enterprise. He died March 14, 1901, and the widow has since resided with het son, Delos W. Delos W. Russell, an only child, resided with his parents, assisting his father in his mill and store until the date of his first marriage. On September 22, 1886, Mr. Russell married Clara. H. Cook, born in Bloomfield, this county, February 7, 1867, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Dunkerton) Cook, natives of England. There were four children born to this union: Cora M., May 22, 1889; Burt A., April 7, 1892; Helen M., May 10, 1894; and Ralph W., March 1, 1896. Mrs. Clara Russell, mother of this family, died January 5, 1899, and for his second wife Mr. Russell married, December 1, 1900, Mae D. Clapp, born in Huntsburg, Geauga county, Ohio, December 1, 1867, a daughter of Samuel E. and Sarah A. (Scott) Clapp, natives of Huntsburg, Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Airs. Russell were Thomas and Lydia (Pomeroy) Clapp, natives of Massachusetts. The latter was the daughter of Stephen Pomeroy, the first settler in Huntsburg, who arrived August 19, 1808. The maternal grandparents were Frederick and Dolly (Wright) Scott, of Massachusetts. For about a year after his first marriage Mr. Russell was employed by his father and was postmaster three or four years; the following two years he served as clerk at Bloomfield station, on the Pennsylvania railroad. He next engag,ed in general merchandising, continuing thus until 1905, when he disposed of his business and for two years followed farming on his mother's place of two hundred acres. In the month of July, 1907, he again established a general store in North Bloomfield, which he is still successfully operating. Mr. Russell affiliates with the Republican party, and has held the office of township treasurer for eight years. His first service in this capacity was from 1897 to 1906, and in 1907 be was elected for another term. The latter fact is sufficient evidence of faithfulness, honesty and ability, and is but one of the best tributes to Mr. Russell's unvarying integrity of character and the substantial quality of his reputation. He was also appointed postmaster again in July, 1908. NELSON MIZNER, a farmer residing along the R. F. D. mail route out from Hubbard, Ohio (No. 2), has been identified with agriculture in Trumbull cpunty all of his active life. He was born April 9, 1849, at the old Mizner homestead, near where the Petroleum Iron Works are now located. His father was Adam Mizner, born in Hubbard township in 1814, the grandfather being Nicholas Mizner, who immigrated to Trumbull county in 1808 from New Jersey, locating in Hubbard township. Nicholas Mizner was married in New Jersey to Rhoda Hall, and they HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 333 moved to Trumbull county by means of a lumber wagon—regular old-fashioned emigrant style—bringing all they possessed along with them in their covered wagon. Adam Mizner was the youngest of twelve children born to Nicholas Mizner and wife, and was educated at the public schools of his native township. He married Mary Ann Hager, who was a daughter of Lawrence and Mary Ann Hager, who lived in Brookfield township, having formerly come from .New Jersey. Adam T. Mizner and wife had eight children: Sarah Jane, now deceased; Louisa, who married George Baker and resides in Brookfield township ; Ada, married J. C. Hand, now living at Farmington, Ohio ; Colista, married F. G. Peck, living in Brookfield. township; Austia, married Samuel D. Baer and lives at Dayton, Ohio; Nelson; Mary, married N. E. Weisel, lives at West Mecca, Ohio; Frank, who lives in Wheatland. Adam T. Mizner was a Republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian church at Brookfield, Ohio, where he served both as deacon and elder. He owned two hundred and fifty acres, on which he did a general farming business. He made this property by his own industry and economy. He died November 20, 1884, his wife sur-viving until August 31, 1899. He traced his ancestry to Germany. Nelson Mizner, of this memoir proper, received his education at the public schools of his native township and began life's real work on his father's farm. He has continued until this time and has been successful in his undertakings. He does general farming and raises many cattle, which he ships to the market. His farm consists of one hundred acres. He has occupied his present place nineteen years and has a modem farm-house of seven rooms. His other buildings are of a good character, all showing thrift and good taste. He married, September 4, 1889, Frances Luce, who was the daughter of Filo and Hanna Luce, of Hubbard. They were of German and Welsh descent. She was raised and educated. at Hubbard. They have one child, Florence A., born September 4, 1892. Mr. Mizner is a Republican, but aside from taking his part in the election of good public officers, he takes no part in politics. He belongs to Sharon Lodge No. 347, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and holds liberal ideas as to religion, while his wife and daughter are connected with the Methodist Episcopal church at Hubbard. CHARLES F. CORLL, one of the industrious farmers, whose farm home is situated in Hubbard township, Trumbull county, is a native of Mercer county, PennsYlvania, born August 8, 1849. He is the son of Isaac Corll, born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1821, and of German parentage. When ten years of age he went to Trumbull county,. Ohio, where after ten years' residence he moved to Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where he married Harriet McClary, who was born February 20, 1823. They moved to Mercer county, where he engaged in farming. Four chil- 334 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY dren were born of this union : William, now deceased; Charles F., of this notice; Lucinda, died at twelve years; Eliza, who married Peter Clark and now lives in Brookfield township, Trumbull county. The mother, Harriet (McClary) Corll, died in 1862, after which Isaac Corll married Esther Patterson, of Trumbull county, and to them were born three children: Ella, who married John Lett; she is now deceased; James C., who lives in Hubbard township ; Ida M., who married Luther Hibler and resides in Hubbard township. The father, Isaac. Corll, was a Democrat in his political views, but never took an active part in politics further than to exercise the right of franchise. He belonged to the Methodist church, in which work he always took an active part. He followed the life of a sturdy, successful farmer, and died after a well-spent life, in 1886. His second wife died. in 1875. Charles F. Corll, son of Isaac and Harriet (McClary) Corll, received his education at the public schools of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and came to Trumbull county in 1865. He carries on general farming on a farm comprising fifty acres, which is well cultivated. Mr. Corll is a con-sistent member of the Methodig Episcopal church at Hubbard, Ohio. He supports the Democratic party by his vote, but takes no active part in the deliberations of that organization. He has, however, held the office of school director of his township. He was united in marriage May 16, 1875, to Alice Clark, daughter of Lester and Elizabeth Clark, who lived in Brookfield township. Their family came from New Jersey at an early day and located in Trumbull county, where Alice was born and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Corll have five children: Ford, who now resides at Sharon, Pennsylvania, a foreman in the iron mills; Rilla, who married James Strubble and lives in Liberty township; Plummer, who lives in Hubbard township; Susan, who lives at home; and Florence, at home. CLYDE TAYLOR, of Liberty township, Trumbull county, farmer and dairyman, living on the R. F. D. Route No. 3, out from Youngstown, was born on the same farm on which he now resides, December 28, 1874. His father was William Allen Taylor, born in 1835 on the same farm. The great-grandfather settled on this tract of land more than one hundred years ago. John Taylor purchased the same from the Connecticut Land Company, or from members of that company. He was a. school teacher and came from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Clyde Taylor now pos-sesses a letter of recommendation from the board of education of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, written in 1798. The Taylors are of Irish descent. John Taylor and wife had six children : Robert, who is now in his eighty-third year, lives at Greenfield, Pennsylvania ; John, Eliza and George, all deceased; Sarah, who married John Moore, resides in Vienna township, Trumbull county, Ohio; William Allen, who commenced life on his father's farm. HISTORY OF TRUMBUIL COUNTY - 335 William Allen Taylor married, November 20, 1866, Harriet Shannon, who was born July 30, 1837, the daughter of John and Jane (Wilson) Shannon. Her father was a major in the War of 1812. She was reared by her sister at Boardman, her mother dying when she was a small girl. Her brother, Thomas J., was Major Shannon, surgeon of the TJnited States army, who was killed after a battle near Martinsburg, Virginia, by sharp-shooters. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had two children : William A., who now lives in Bergholz, Ohio, is married and has two children—Grace and Doro-thy; and Clyde, of this memoir. The father was politically a Democrat, leaning toward Prohibition. He was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church for fifty-one years, during which long period he served as steward, trustee and other officer of the church, almost continuously. He was a liberal contributor to the support of the church. For forty-one years he took charge of the communion service of the church at Church Hill. In his vocation he was a farmer and stock raiser, doing an extensive shipping business to Pittsburg and eastern markets. In 1883 he engaged in the coal mining business and had mines at Church Hill, Trumbull cotmty; Paris, Stark county, and Bergholz, Jefferson county. He died March 10, 1908, honored and respected and known as an enterprising citizen. Clyde Taylor owns a well-improved farm of eighty acres, on which be carries on general agriculture, making a specialty, however, of dairying. He operates a milk wagon route in Youngstown, where he has a paying line of customers. Mr. Taylor has never married. His mother, who is now seventy-one years of age, resides with him. Politically, he is a supporter of the Republican party and takes an. active part in all that tends to elevate his party's interests. He has been on the board of education, being its president one year and serving as clerk one year. He was appointed as township clerk of Liberty township to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Guy. In his religious faith he adheres to that of his fathers, and is a member of the Church Hill Methodist Episcopal church, where he takes active part in all church work. He is Sunday school superintendent and one of the trustees of the ch-urch. MRS. PHEBE SHANNON, of Girard, Ohio, widow of John B. Shannon, is numbered among the highly intelligent and much respected women of Girard and Liberty townships. She is the daughter of Elmandoras and Eliza (Mason) Crandon, who were residents of Girard, Ohio, having come to Trumbull county from Connecticut at an early day. They made the journ.ey overland in a wagon. Mrs. Shannon was educated in the public schools of Liberty township and at Girard. April 12, 1870, she married John B. Shannon, whose death occurred November 13, 1905. Mr. Shannon was born in the town of Girard, on the old state road, October 14, 1847. His father was James Shannon, of Irish descent, who came to Trumbull county with his father at an early day. The family settled on a farm now known as Briar Hill Farm. The father of James Shannon, Major John Vol. II-22 336 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY Shannon, of the war of 1812, was an intimate friend and business associate of Governor Tod. James Shannon was a.civil engineer, and helped survey the Western Reserve. He was a teacher of considerable note in his day and generation, and a brother of Jefferson Shannon, surgeon-in-chief in the Civil war. James Shannon, member of the Disciples church at Girard, always took an active part in church work, being an elder and contributing liberally to the support of the cause of Christianity. He died at the age of eighty-six years. James Shannon was married to Lucy Whitten, daughter of Lavinia Whitten, and she was an adopted daughter of John Barnhisel. She was reared to know the value of friends and of an education, which she obtained at the public schools of Trumbull county. They had one child—john Barnhisel. John B. Shannon followed farming and stock raising, and kept a large flock of sheep on his farm. He also had a sheep ranch of several hundred acres in. Norton county, Kansas, in which locality he was very successful as a sheep producer. In his political views Mr. Shannon was a Democrat, but was never an active man in political circles. He was a. stockholder in the Girard National Bank, and withal a highly honored citizen. John B. Shannon and wife, Phebe (Crandon) Shannon, were the parents of one child, Clara B., who married Herbert L. Jones, and they have one son—Shannon Jones. JOHN L. BARD, the enterprising saw mill, lumberman and farm operator, residing in Liberty township, Trumbull county, was born March 2, 1853, in the township wherein be now resides. His father, James H. Bard, was born and reared in Liberty township. His grandfather, 'Squire William Bard, located in Trumbull county in 1817 and erected the first steam saw mill in the state. He also purchased more than a. section of fine timber land in Liberty township, and there reared a family of fourteen children, ten. of whom lived to raise families, all but two sons, James H. and Dr. Isaac D., moving with their families to Iowa in the late. fifties, whither the old people followed them, selling out their interest here at the age of seventy-one and moving to Iowa in 1863, dying there twelve years later. James H. Bard married Mary Moser, daughter of Daniel Moser, who came from Pennsylvania and settled on a farm on the old state road near Girard, where Mary Moser was reared and received her educational training in the public schools. James H. Bard and wife were the parents of the following children : Theron W., deceased, of Chicago; Mina, who married C. S. Loomis, now residing in Los Angeles, California; John L., of this sketch; Ella H., married David A.. Flemming and is living in Los Angeles, California; Sylvanus M., now of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Henrietta, died single; .James H., who lives in Chicago, a. Socialist of considerable prominence; and Sarah E., deceased. In 1862 James H. Bard, Sr., and Captain Mason, of Girard, organized HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 337 Company C, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and were enlisted in the Union army to serve in the Civil war, then raging. Mr. Bard early contracted southern fever was furloughed home, after "being in the hospital about six months and 'later was honorably discharged from the service. He never recovered 'his health, although he survived a number of years, during several of which he conducted an extensive lumber business in the state of Michigan. He was a Republican in politics, and was active in township and.state political issues, and was especially active and prominent during the early years of the Civil war. He belonged to a number of Youngstown lodges, including. the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. He was .connected with the Methodist Protestant church at Sodom, near his home, where he always took an active part in church life, and, in fact, was one of the founders of the church at that point. He was engaged in saw mill and lumbering, and had a planing mill at Youngstown, Ohio. He there did much business with contractors, and furnished timbers for coal mines and foundries, in Youngstown and vicinity. John L. Bard was reared in Liberty township, and there obtained his education at the public schools. He also attended one term at Orwell Academy, under H. U. Johnson, who was a. leader in the famous "under-ground railroad" of pro-war days. Mr. Bard gave up his school to return home and take the management of his father's milling interests. He has managed a saw mill since he was eighteen years of age, and is thoroughly successful at such industry. Being located in his many years of saw mill work in one of the best timbered sections of the state and drawing his trade for several miles arotind him, today his annual output is nearly three hundred thousand feet, on a mill site of over fifty years' standing in one spot. In politics Mr. Bard is a Prohibitionist, but aside from voting he takes no special part in party politics, excepting in the recent local option election of October 27, 1908, be spared. neither time nor means to help make the county dry. In church affairs be is identified with the Methodist Protestant denomination at Sodom, being a steward and trustee. Upon him has rested largely the responsibility of looking after the finances of the church organization. In 1908 he was elected a member of the school board of Liberty township. He has a fine farm of two hundred acres which he superintends. He has wisely taken time to travel considerably, including a trip to the far away Pacific coast, visiting places of interest en route, such as the famous Yellowstone Park, etc. Concerning his domestic relations, it mav be said that lie married April 14, 1887, Sarah E. Creed, daughter of John and Ann Creed, who came to this country from England in 1852. Her father died twenty-six years later, the mother living to see her family of eight children all married and rearing a families of their own. Mr. and Mrs. Bard have two children: John L., Jr., born 1891, and Elsie M., born 1895. Both are children of bright promise, John, Jr. attending Rayen School in Youngstown and Elsie M. Church Hill high school. 338 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY R. TODD VAN ORSDEL, who is a well known dealer in. livestock an.d meats of Liberty township, Trumbull county, was born February 27, 1869. His parents were- Job R. and Jane (Justice) Van Orsdel, and he is the third of their four children. The family is of Dutch stock, the paternal great-grandfather, Cornelius Van Orsdel, being a native of the Netherlands. The maternal grandmother, Margaret, was a descendant of the famous Virginia family of which John Randolph, of Roanoke, was the most famous. The paternal grandfather, Ralph Van Orsdel, spent his life principally in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, where his death occurred in 1891. Job R. Van Orsdel, the father, was one of the most prominent farmers, stOckmen and citizens of Liberty township, a native of Butler county, Pennsylvania, born. on the 31st of December, 1837. He was the eldest of .eleven children, and when a young man of twenty-four joined the Union forces for service in the Civil War. He enlisted August 1, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, and, with the Army of the Potomac under Burnside, participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. He was mustered out of the service with honor on the 30th of June, 1863. Job R. Van Orsdel returned from the front and resumed work of the farm at his home in Lawrence county, and on September 6th of that year married Miss Jane Justice, his first wife. For several years he continued the business which he had begun before joining the service, that of operating a threshing machine, taking harvest contracts from neighboring farmers. He next embarked in the livestock business, buying and selling to .home dealers at first, but later extending his operations so as to include shipments of cattle to outside markets. In 1880 Mr. Van Orsdel located near Coalburg, Ohio, but afterward setfied in Liberty township, in 1889 purchasing the farm of ninety-five acres., which he continued to improve until his death, July 1, 1906. His death was immediately caused by injuries sustained by being kicked by a. horse. At the time of his decease he had also been engaged for years as a large dealer in livestock, slaughtering and shipping to the Youngstown market, and he also controlled more than 300 acres of land. The family homestead was located four miles north of Youngstown. Mr. Van Orsdel was also a citizen of public prominence, and was twice elected county commissioner—in 1902 and 1904. He was serving his second term at the time of his death, and upon the day of his funeral, which was largely attended, the flag on the courthouse at Warren was lowered to halfmast in his honor. Job R. Van Orsdel was twice married, his first wife dying in 1875, the mother of four children—William C.; Minnie D., who became the wife of David T. Lowry, of Youngstown; Ralph Todd, of this sketch; Sanford N., of Nebraska. In 1876 Mr. Van Orsdel married Miss Mary Black, an Ohio lady, and their four children were as follows: Guy M. and Iva F., twins; John C. and Bessie Van Orsdel. Nearly all the members of both families have been members of the United Presbyterian church, and the deceased was an elder of Liberty congregation and one of the most active and honored workers. HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 339 R. Todd Van Orsdel, of this review, was early taught the usefulness and honor of honest toil, and has long been one of the leading farmers and livestock dealers of Trumbull county. He leases one hundred and eighty acres of land, and now devotes his entire attention to the stock business; this includes slaughtering for the Youngstown market, and his slaughter houses are large and well conducted. Mr. Van Orsdel has never been a politician, but his vote has invariably been cast for the Republican party. On February 24, 1898, Mr. Van Orsdel married Miss Carrie Strubble, daughter of George Struble and wife, of Brookfield township, where she herself was reared and educatea. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Van Orsdel are as follows : William Tod, born February 11, 1899 ; George Claire, born May 29, 1901, and Erma Frances Van Orsdel, born December 25, 1903. JONATHAN KEEFER, who died in Liberty township, Trumbull county, February 5, 1905, was a typical Ohio farmer, and when that is said he is classed among the leading agriculturists of the United States. At the time of his death he had occupied his homestead for nearly fifty years, or since he was a young man, and his worthy widow is still conducting the farm along the old and successful lines. The homestead consists of some three hundred and seventy acres of fine agricultural land, a good residence and other valuable improvements, and the farm is one of the best in Trumbull county. Mr. Keefer devoted much of his time to horses and cattle and took particular pride in a fine flock of Shropshire sheep, and his widow is ROW actively superintending this feature of the farm. Jacob Keefer, the grandfather of the deceased, was a native of Lorraine, France, where his Son (also Jacob Keefer) was born, reared and educated. When Jacob Keefer, Jr., came to the United States he settled in Pennsylvania, and in Lehigh county was married to Miss Rebecca Nier. This couple afterward. located in Canfield, Mahoning county, Ohio, and two years afterward in Liberty township, Trumbull county. The mother died in 1871 and the father in 1889, and of their ten children Jonathan Keefer was the eldest, born on the 21st of March, 1833. At the age of twenty-three, on the 20th of November, 1855, Mr. Keefer wedded Miss Rebecca Herring, who died in 1887, the mother of one child, who died in infancy. On December 24, 1890, he married as his second wife Mary Baird, daughter of John and Eliza (Kitch) Baird, of Youngstown, Mahoning county. Mrs. Mary B. Keefer at once became her huSband's faithful assistant and continued. to lighten his burdens and further his interests as long as he lived. Together they managed and developed the affairs of the fine farm, which had been in Mr. Keefer's possession since 1857, and she now maintains a double station of honor, both by virtue of her own worth and as the widow of a stanch citizen who had been such a high credit to his calling and his family. Mrs. Keefer is an honored member of the Methodist church and a. lady of intelligent and substantial 340 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY moral character. Two children were born of the last marriage: J. Warren, born August 18, 1894, and Paul, born March 29, 1897. GEORGE B. FRAZIER, one of the enterprising agriculturists of Liberty township, Trumbull county, was born October 23, 1843, on the farm where he now lives. His father, George Frazier, Sr., was born and reared in Hubbard, Ohio, and he was the son of William Frazier, of Scotch descent. George, Sr., was reared to farm work and educated at the district school at Hubbard. He commenced his active career as a tiller of the soil and always canied on general farming operations. Politically, be was first a Whig and later a Republican. In church relations he was a member of the Evangelical Association, in which church lie was a faithful class leader and Sunday school superintendent. He married Melinda Hoffman, daughter of Isaac Hoffman and wife Susanna, who lived in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where Melinda was born. When fourteen years of age she accompanied her parents to a point about fourteen miles west of Pittsburg, remained there two years and went to Trumbull county, locating in Liberty township, which was then a wilderness. Melinda (Hoffman) Frazier had many thrilling experiences in those days. She had no brothers, and consequently it fell to her lot to help in the field. When sixteen years of age she would work all day in the field and then milk nine cows, and if there was churning to do would perform that ever-irksome task before bedtime. Late one evening she had finished her work at the springhouse and started to the house, which she found locked, her parents supposing her in bed. She opened a window and had hardly closed it when she heard the cry of a panther just outside. Luckily, she escaped an attack from this most dangerous of wild animals. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier had seven children. They were as follows: Mary, who died in infancy; John H.; William H.; Isaac. R., drowned while in the army; George B., of this notice; Elvira; Julia H., now residing with George B. All are dead but George B. and Julia H. The father died December 29, 1885. George B. Frazier, the fourth child in order of birth, was educated at the public schools of Liberty township. He remained single and was for some time a member of the Ohio National Guard, later enlisting in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being a member of Company D, where he served until the close of the war. He was at the battle of Kellars Ridge, Kentucky, against General Morgan, the famous cavalry raider. The Union troops, being outnumbered, were surrounded and captured. He now holds in sacred keeping his honorable discharge from both the National Guard and the Union army as a soldier of the great civil conflict, together with a letter, or rather certificate of thanks, from President Lincoln, of which he is justly proud. Politically, he is a stanch Republican, while in church faith he is of the Evangelical Association, in which church be has served as class leader, Sunday school HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 341 superintendent, secretary of the Sunday school and a teacher in the same. Mr. Frazier carries on general farming, having sixty-five acres under cultivation. His sister, Julia B. Frazier, was born February 19, 1849, and was reared and educated in her native township. She has lived with her brother, George B., making a. home for him and caring for their mother, who is now in her ninety-sixth year and is the oldest woman in this part of the country, and is in feeble health at this writing-1908. THOMAS HARRIS STEWART, M. D., physician and surgeon, of Churchill, Liberty township,. Trumbull county, is a native of Murraysville, Pennsylvania, born October 5, 1838, a son of Dr. Zachariah Gemmill Stewart, who was the seventh child of Thomas Harris and wife Anne (Gemmill) Stewart, and was born in Alexandria, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1805, and was named. for his mother's brother, an early resident of Alexandria. Thomas Harris Stewart, grandfather of Dr. Stewart, was the third son and the fifth child of Colonel George and Mary (Harris) Stewart, and was born February 5, 1767, at Harford, Maryland. Dr. Z. G. Stewart was united in marriage to Jane Laird, and to them were born the following children : Francis Laird, who married Margaret Harris Stewart, May 13, 1856; Dr. Thomas H., of this notice; Robert Laird, who married Sadie Ewing, April 28, 1870; Anna Mary, who married William McJunkin, October 16, 1879; Jane Eliza, married john Mateer, December 23, 1879. Dr. Thomas H. Stewart passed his youthful days in his native village, Murraysville, Pennsylvania. From 1853 to 1857 he was employed on the Argus at Greensburg, with his uncle, John M. Laird, Esq., and there mastered. the printer's trade. He then returned to his native place and pursued a classical course, with mathematics, under the Presbyterian pastor of that place, the Rev. William Edgar, and adding to these st'udies, as a recreation, botany, zoology and kindred branches of natural history, and collecting a large cabinet of geological and zoological specimens, thus acquiring a great love of nature. He also kept a meteorological record for the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C. April 1, 1859, he moved with his father's family to Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and entered college, from which he graduated in 1863. After spending one year in his cousin's drug store, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Barnett. Varying this study with more service in the drug store (1867) and at teaching (1868) and spending two winters at the University of Michigan (1866-67 and 1868-69), he graduated in medicine, with his M. D. title well earned, in MarCh, 1869. In 1866 he also took the degree of A. M. from his alma mater. For a few months he practiced his profession with Dr. H. B. Piper at Harrison City, Pennsylvania but in February, 1870, he located at Churchill, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he has since successfully practiced medicine. In 1901 the 342 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY doctor retired from active practice and spent the winter of 1901-02 in Southern California and the following winter in Florida, where he has since spent his winters. During the summer months he resides at his comfortable home at Churchill, Ohio. Politically, Dr. Stewart is a Republican and was elected to the Ohio legislature from Trumbull county and .spent four winters (1886-1889, inclusive) at Columbus, Ohio, attending to his duties as a state representative. He was a member of the Trumbull County Medical Society for a number of years, serving as president one year; the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Masonic order, being advanced to the degree of a Knight Templar, belonging at Youngstown, Ohio. In his church faith he is in accord with the Methodist Episcopal church. January 6, 1870, he was married to Sarah Gustine Snowden, daughter of Dr. Isaac W. and Margery (Loudon) Snowden. By this union one child was born, Maude, born at Churchill, Ohio, November 23, 1870. She was married September 18, 1895, to Louis Herbert Brush. Mr. and Mrs. Brush reside at Salem, Ohio, and they have one son, Thomas Stewart Brush, born July 12, 1896. Concerning the ancestry of Mrs. Dr. Stewart, let it be here recorded that John Snowden, the first known of this name, emigrated from Great Britain to Chester county, Pennsylvania, some time previous to 1678. In 1685 he moved to Philadelphia, and in 1704 was an elder in the First Presbyterian church there. He was the first elder ordained in Pennsylvania. His son, Isaac, born 1732, was prominent in both church and state. Four sons were graduated from Princeton and adorned the ministry. One of these was _Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, born at Philadelphia 1770, graduated at Princeton College 1787; was licensed to preach at Carlisle, October 22, 1793; was pastor at Paxton and Derry until 1796 and of Harrisburg until June 25, 1805. Rev. N. R. Snowden married a daughter of Dr. Lemuel Gustine and had six children—five sons and one daughter. One son was James Ross Snowden, LL.D., a distinguished Philadelphian. He had four sons, who became doctors of medicine, the eldest of whom was Isaac W. Snowden. He was a surgeon in the army from 1816 to 1823, but upon resigning practiced at Hogestown, near Harrisburg, and died June 4, 1850. He married Margery B. Loudon, daughter of Archibald Loudon. They ha,d two sons and three daughters. One son is Col. A. Loudon Snowden, late director of the United States mint at Philadelphia, and one daughter Sarah Gustine, the wife of Dr. Stewart. CHARLES L. ADGATE, well known in Trumbull county as a florist and market gardener, represents a family which has long resided within the borders of this county, and from the early days to the present the name has been associated with its business interests. John H. Adgate, his paternal grandfather, came to the United States from Germany and, drifting west-ward, he with other men of his time purchased the land upon which a HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 343 portion of the present city of Warren now stands. His name is also recorded among those who fought against the Indians at Salt Springs. Hover Adgate, a son of this Trumbull county pioneer, was born in its township of Howland and there received his educational training. During the active years of his business life he was both a market gardener and a brick maker, and to him belongs the credit of manufacturing the brick from which many of the buildings of Warren and vicinity were made, prominent among which was the Austin house. He was a life long supporter of Republican principles, although never an active party worker, and his death occurred in the year of 1896. He married on fife 28th of October, 1838, Matilda Baldwin, also born, reared and educated in the vicinity of Warren, a daughter of Jacob H. Baldwin, another of the honored early pioneers of Trumbull county. They became the parents of the following children: Harry, deceased; Carrie, the widow of Elisha Robbins; John H., residing in Warren; Flora, who became the wife of George Van* Wye, and is living in Florence, Colorado; Charles L., mentioned below, one who died in infancy. Charles L. Adgate was born in Howland township, Trumbull county, January 13, 1858, the youngest son of Hover and Matilda Adgate, and he obtained his educational training in the district schools of Warren township and in the city schools of Warren. From his school days until the age of twenty-five he worked with his father at market gardening, beginning life on his own responsibilities at that age, and he is now a successful florist and market gardener. At his large and well stocked greenhouse he makes a specialty of the raising of carnations and lilies, also supplying all kinds of budded stock, and at his flower store, located at No. 26 Park avenue, Niles, Ohio, he supplies all varieties of flowers and sells florists' supplies, but makes a specialty of cut flowers for use at weddings, funerals and other occasions. In his truck garden he produces all kinds of vegetables in their season, and sells his commodities to the wholesale trade. In politics Mr. Adgate upholds the principles of the Republican party, and he has membership relations with the Masonic order, belonging to Mahoning Lodge No. 394, F. & A. M., and with Falcon Lodge No. 436, I. O. O. F., both of Niles. His church connection is with the Baptist denomination, where for eight years he has served as a church clerk. He married, September 28, 1883, Mary Miller, a daughter of Jonathan and Fianna (Heinzelman) Miller, both of German descent. Mrs. Adgate was educated in the schools of Warren. Three children have blessed their marriage union : Ross E., Mabel L. and Mary C., all of whom reside with their parents. WARREN DUNLAP, one of the successful farmers of Mineral Ridge, Weathersfield township, Trumbull county was born in the house in which he now lives November 16, 1875. John Dunlap, his father, came from Scotland, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. Upon coming to the United States in 1837 he located first near the Canadian line, on the St. Lawrence 344 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY river, but soon came to Trumbull .county, Ohio. He married Caroline Rumsey, of Ohltown, Ohio, where she was reared. and obtained her education. Eleven children were born of this union: Mrs. Lichty, of Cleveland, Ohio; Howard, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Horace, of Arizona, a banker ; Bert, of Arizona; Mrs. J. W. Jones, of Long Beach; Miss Alice; Miss Grace and Warren Dunlap, of this narrative. Grant died in infancy ; May died at age of eighteen years; Blanch died at age of twenty-eight years. John Dunlap, the father of this family, was a prominent worker in the Republican party, He was entrusted with numerous local offices, having been elected county commissioner, and served in such capacity during the building of the present court house at Warren. He affiliated with the Masonic order, and had advanced to the degree of Knights Templar. At the time of his death he was counted among the wealthiest men of Trumbull county. In his church relations he was of the Methodist Episcopal faith, giving liberally of his wealth to the cause of the church and to the needy poor about him. He was modest, and never displayed his donations to be seen of or praised by men. He was a stockholder in the Union National Bank of Warren, the City National Bank of Niles, and up to the time of his death attended to his valuable interests in Hocking Valley Coal Lands; also in similar holdings in Mahoning Valley. He was one of the promoters of the Western Reserve Stock Company of Arizona. Beloved by all who knew him, his memory is still cherished, and long will be. Warren Dunlap commenced life on his father's farm, and received his education at the diitrict schools, after which Ile attended college at Mt. Union (Ohio) College two terms, where most of his sisters .and brothers received their education. After leaving school he spent three years in the far .west, for the most part on his father's ranch in Arizona. On coming home he took a commercial course in the Business School of Warren. Politically Mr. Dunlap is a Republican, but takes no active part in party work. He and his family belong to the Presbyterian church. He is engaged in farming extensively. His farm consists of one hundred and forty acres. He is interested in coal land in Hocking and Mahoning val-leys, besides looking after many interests in which the estate of his father is concerned. He was married June 12, 1901, to Lida Jones, the accomplished daughter of William and Anna (White) Jones, of Mineral Ridge. Mrs. Dunlap was born and reared fri that section and educated in Mineral Ridge schools, graduating from the high school. She is a public speaker of some note, and has taken part in several of the W. C. T. U. oratorical contests. She has captured the silver prize medal, the gold and the grand gold medals in contests at Warren and Mineral Ridge. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap, Harold John, born January 24, 1903. WILLIAM E. HUGHES, of Mineral Ridge, in Weathersfield township, a retired farmer, was born at Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1847. Samuel Hughes, his father, was born and reared near Dry HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 345 Valley, close to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He was of Scotch and Penn-sylvania Dutch descent. He married Matilda Densel at Lewistown. She was of German parentage. This worthy couple had eight children: Nancy, wife of Bryson Wilson; Mary E., wife of James Taylor, of Pittsburg; Christina A., wife of George Newman, of Niles, Ohio; Susanna, wife of James Brood, of Pittsburg; Maria, wife of Samuel Lynch, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania; Albert C., who lives at Gallipolis, Ohio; William E., of this sketch; James P., of Newton Falls, Ohio. Samuel Hughes, the father, came to Ohio in 1856, settling at Ohltown, Trumbull county. He was connected with the Junior Order of American Mechanics; was a soldier in the Civil war, and served in the Twentieth Ohio Infantry Regiment and was in twenty-three hard-fought battles, among which engagements may be enumerated Vicksburg, Atlanta and Bolivar, Tennessee. He was a corporal in his company, and served under Division Commander Logan at Shiloh, Corinth, Mississippi and Fort Donelson. Politically he voted with the Republican party, and in church faith was a communicant of the Baptist church the greater part of his life. He held many church offices during his membership in this denomination. He was at one time a local preacher, and was noted for working hard during the entire week and then driving from five to ten miles on Sunday in order to preach. William E. Hughes, the seventh child in his parents family, began his career in life as an iron worker in the rolling mills, when about nineteen years of age. He received his education at Ternperanceville, Pennsylvania, and at the district schools of Ohltown, Ohio. He commenced a course in the business college at Pittsburg, but left before he graduated. When six-teen years of age be enlisted in tbe Twentieth Ohio Regiment as a member of Company H, as a drummer boy, and was in twenty-three hard-fought engagements with his command. Grant and Sherman were the leading generals under whom he served his time in the great Civil war, as the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Army Corps were what was styled "Sherman's Bummers," and he was associated with that gallant, rough and always ready portion of the Union volunteer service. He was. in the Seventeenth Corps and served three years, from 1861 to 1864. Since the war ended be has spent all of his active years as an iron worker, together with carpentering. On account of his age he is now retired, and lives on a small farm in Weathersfield township. Politically Mr. Hughes is a Republican. In religious faith he is affiliated with the Spiritualist denomination. He was married February 2, 1868, to Orvilla M. Baer, who was the daughter of Lafayette and Orvilla Baer, residents of Niles, Ohio. They moved from Pennsylvania in 1849, when she was two weeks old. Mrs. Hughes was educated at the common schools. The children born of this union are : William L., who married and lives at Youngstown, Ohio; Francis May, wife of Collingwood Brown, lives at Niles, Ohio ; Charles A., residing at Canton, Obio ; George W., who died in infancy; Otto A., an adopted son, sy-ho lives at the family home. 346 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY ELMER E. FERRIS, of Weathersfield township, Trumbull county who is an enterprising farmer, residing on R. F. D. No. 2, and who also is an extensive dealer in both sand and gravel, was born near Ottawa, Canada, September 28, 1843, a son of Thomas Ferris, who was reared and spent his entire life at and near Ottawa, Canada, where he followed farming. He died when the son, Elmer E., was a child. The wife and mother was Frances (Elward) Ferris, also of Canadian birth, where she spent her life. In the family were two sons and four daughters, as follows: Elizabeth, wife of Mathew Lonsdale, now deceased; Sophia, wife of Hugh Gehan ; Mary Ann, wife of Alexander Cooper, now deceased ; Catherine, wife of Elmer Gehan; Robert B., who now lives at Ottawa, Canada; and Elmer E. Elmer E. Ferris was educated in the schools near Ottawa, where he continued to reside until 1860, when he went to the States, making the trip via Prescott, by rail, thence by boat to Cleveland, Ohio. From that city he went to Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where he was employed by the Mercer Coal and Iron Company. Subsequently he embarked in the lumber business, contracting lumber for the Erie Canal Extension Company. In 1864 he removed to Trumbull county, Ohio. Upon his arrival in Trumbull county he located at Warren, and there engaged in the lumber trade, associated with Kirk, Christy & Co. for four years, when he conducted the business for himself until recently. He engaged in farming on a place having one hundred and forty-eight acres, upon which he now resides, having lived there thirty-two years ago and drove to Warren to attend to his lumber business. Here he carries on a successful agricultural business. But recently he has engaged in a new industry, that of handling sand and gravel, he having a pit on his own farm, which is also a portion of the Salt Springs tract, and a part of the four thousand acre reserve. In his political views Mr. Ferris is a stalwart defender of Democratic principles, and in church faith a life-long Episcopalian, in which faith his parents reared him. September 8, 1875, he was married to Savilla Moser, daughter of Cornelius Moser and wife, whose maiden name was Adaline McKee, of Warren, whose father came to Trumbull county at an early day from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ferris received her education at the public schools of Warren, Ohio. One child has blessed this union, Elward Leon, born in 1898, now at home with his parents. SAMUEL H. PARK, of Weathersfield township, Trumbull county, farmer and dairyman, was born March 19, 1866, in Weathersfield township, and has always resided there. He is the son of John H. Park, who was a native of Rutland county, Vermont, born in Wells township May 21, 1821. The grandfather emigrated with his family when John H. was five years of age, going to a point about seven. miles west of Lake Champlain, near the eastern terminus of the Adirondacks, New York, where the father bought eighty acres of land. There he erected a saw mill and engaged in farming in a modest manner. The father built and operated a hotel of rather small HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 347 dimensions, but where he did considerable business. It was at this point that John H. Park and his brothers attended school about three months of the year, while the balance of the time was spent in hunting and +rapping bear, wolves and other small game, as well as exploring the stream§ in that vicinity. Although his parents were prosperous where they had settled, they joined the almost endless chain of emigrants, and in the year 1830 John H. Park and father set out for the vast, illimitable and ever-changing west, following the star of empire as far west as Ohio. At times they walked and at other times would ride in wagons, stage coach and canal boats. They finally arrived at Warren, Trumbull county, and, after a survey of the premises, purchased a tract of three hundred and sixty acres of land four miles below Warren, on the banks of the Mahoning river, paying for the same five dollars an acre. This was included in the Salt Springs four thousand acre tract, reserved for its timber. In the same year he moved his family to this county, driving through in wagons, locating in a log house on the land purchased. It was here that John H. Park received most of his education, in the first school house in Weathersfield township, the same being constructed by his father. In that township John H. Park lived until claimed by death, August 2, 1904. He was well known and highly respected for his noble traits of manhood. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He held local offices, including trustee of Weathersfield township. He married Lucinda Weise11, who came to Trumbull county when a mere girl from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. She died in 1880. By this union six children were born: Edwin; Minerva J., wife of Leander Cole, both of whom are now deceased; Rachel A., wife of J. E. Fisher; Mary Rebecca, wife of F. R. Adams; John C., of Lordstown, Ohio, and Samuel H., who was the youngest in the family. Samuel H. Park received his education at the public schools of Weathersfield township and attended two terms at Niles, Ohio. He began life on his own account on the farm which he now lives upon, at the age of twenty-one years, having remained at home with his parents up to that time. He is now engaged in general farming pursuits, and carries on dairying to quite an extent. He owns and cultivates his farm, consisting of one hundred and eighty-four acres. Politically Mr. Park is a life-long Republican, and was a member of the board of education from 1904 to 1907. He belongs to Falcon Lodge No. 436, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; also to the Senior Order of American Mechanics, Garfield Lodge No. 2. Mr. Park was happily united in marriage September 24, 1906, to Miss Agnes M. Johns, of Niles, Ohio, a daughter of William and Margaret Johns, who went to Youngstown, Ohio, from South Wales in 1880, moving to Niles in 1891. Mrs. Park was educated in the public schools of the city of Youngstown, Ohio, and at Niles. FRANK WALKLEY, of Bristolville, Trumbull county, Ohio, is a native of that city and a son of Aaron and Mary .(Smith) Walkley, the father 348 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY born February 14, 1821, in Bristol, and the mother in Osnaburg, Stark county, Ohio, January 23, 1834. The grandparents were Jonathan and Nancy (Niles) Walkley, natives of Connecticut, and Jeremiah and Nancy Smith, of Pennsylvania. Jonathan Walkley was born at Haddam, November 16, 1783, and died at Bristolville, October 10, 1828. He came to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1806, by means of an ox team, settling in the big timber district, having had to fell and burn the trees in order to get tillable land to produce crops sufficient to subsist upon. At that early day the Indians were frequently in sight and sometimes troublesome, while game, including deer, was very plentiful. November 22, 1808, he married Nancy Niles, who was born at Chatam, Connecticut, February 24, 1784, and who died in Bristolville, October 29, 1893. It was about the year of 1809 when he settled on the farm now owned by Frank Walkley. and locating on the main road between the lakes and Pittsburg, he there conducted an inn or tavern for the traveling public, who went in those days by stage coach and on horseback generally to and from the eastern cities. At the time there was an Indian village on the farm, and the Indians were frequent visitors. He had the distinction of building, about the year 1814, the first frame residence within the township, which building is still standing in a good state of preservation and in use. On this one hundred acre farm Aaron Walkley always resided, dying there in 1876. The wife of Aaron Walkley died. in 1903. The children born of this union were as follows : George, Frank, and Belle, the daughter, now Mrs. L. A. Hine. of Mantua, Portage county, Ohio. Frank Walkley attended the common schools and during one year the Western Reserve Seminary of West Farmington. He is in politics a Democrat and has served three terms as state deputy supervisor of elections from Trumbull county. He was the Democratic candidate for presidential elector from the Nineteenth district in 1908, and has served on the Democratic central and executive committees a great many times, also serving many times as a delegate to county, district and state conventions. He has been a candidate for town and county offices, and is a prominent and active worker in his party cause. He has fraternal membership with the Knights of the Maccabees, Bristolville Lodge No. 181, and with the Knights of the Golden Eagle of the same place. He has always resided on the farm, which became his possession by right of sole title, and there he carried on general farming pursuits. It should be further mentioned in connection with this prominent Walkley family that both the paternal and maternal great-grandfathers of Frank Walkley were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, the latter, Elisha Niles, having been with Washington at Valley Forge and at Yorktown. Asa Walkley was at the battle of Bunker Hill, and although he served all through the Revolutionary war and the last war with Great Britain, that of 1812, without injury, he was killed by lightning while lying in bed. Jonathan Walkley was in the War of 1812. Another historical representative of this family was Harry Rockwell, HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 349 whose romantic matrimonial experience is recorded in the history of Middlesex county, Connecticut. It is a happier version of Enoch Arden, and its reproduction is as follows : "Harry Rockwell was born in Warehouse Point, Connecticut, January 18, 1796, and on the 19th of January, 1817, married Esther, daughter of Elisha Niles. In 1819 he went to Savannah, Georgia, in the employ of a New York man as a carpenter. There he spent the winter, and, returning to New York, shipped on board a vessel bound on a whaling expedition to the South Sea islands. On account of cruel and inhuman treatment by the officers, Mr. Rockwell and some of his comrades deserted, and after almost incredible suffering they reached a place where an English man-of-war was lying, on board of which they shipped. England and Spain were then at war, and in a short time a Spanish vessel captured the Englishman, and the crew were introduced to all the horrors of a Spanish prison. At length Mr. Rockwell was released and enlisted in the American naval service, where he remained a number of years, and of terward entered the merchant service as a sailor and visited many foreign countries. In about six years after leaving home he came to New York, and learning that his wife, supposing him to be dead, had married again, he returned to his seafaring life. Mrs. Rockwell married George Evans, who died in 1831, leaving her with three children. In 1835 Mr. Rockwell, moved by a desire to learn what fortune had befallen his home during his sixteen years of absence, returned to East Hampton, where he was unrecognized, and by cautious inquiry learned the particulars. .0n the afternoon of July 4, 1835, he knocked at the door of his home and asked permission for brief shelter from an impending thunderstorm, and was cheerfully bidden to enter. In a few moments he was recognized, and five days later they were reunited in marriage. Three sons were born of this union, and the couple thus reunited lived together nearly forty-eight years, until Mr. Rockwell's death, April 8, 1883." Esther (Niles) Rockwell was a great-aunt of Frank Walkley, and she died on the 17th of October, 1886, aged eighty-nine years. Thomas Walkley, a brother of Jonathan, a great-uncle of Frank Walkley, was a graduate of Yale and a professor of that college at the time of his death. Another brother, Simeon, was captain of an American privateer vessel and was shipwrecked. He, with four others, escaped on a raft, but he died on the fifth day of exposure and starvation and was buried at sea. The others were rescued on the seventh day out, but they were compelled to chew and eat the leather in their shoes, as they had no provisions of any kind. JOHN EDGAR, who is engaged in farming pursuits within that goodly, portion of Trumbull county known as Bristol township, is a native of the north of England, born November 11, 1833, a son of George and Margaret (Bird) Edgar. The grandparents were David Edgar, a native of Scotland, and John and Mary Bird, of England.